Boo!

Those are the sorts of questions MBC is inviting readers to answer in this open thread today.

Tell us about your Halloween traditions and plans, particularly those with a local angle.

Your blog author is a bit blown away by the manner in which Halloween has grown into such a landmark holiday. Strings of Halloween lights going up October 1? That really, really doesn't seem familiar from our childhood.

But it's all good. It's an autumn festival, and that sort of thing does have deep roots, ghouls or no ghouls.